Top up CMF; tax foreign digital services: C.D. Howe report

TORONTO – Regulators must help to save Canadian voices from extinction as television evolves in a new digital world, says a new report from the C.D Howe Institute.In Strengthening Canadian Television Content: Creation, Discovery and Export in a Digital World, authors Lawson Hunter, Kenneth Engelhart and Peter Miller find the future of television and Canadian content is up in the air in a world where TV is delivered over the Internet, bypassing Canadian regulations. Internet-delivered TV’s increasing popularity could lead to a significant decline in the amount of available Canadian television content, at least in the regulated system, says the report. ...